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Managing Bottlenecks

If you’re lucky enough to be in a situation where demand for your product or service exceeds your ability to make the products or deliver the service, then you want to find ways to increase your production so you can sell more. Effective management of your bottleneck, or constraint — resources that limit a process’s output — is a key to productivity and profitability.

In this section, we point out how overproduction can conceal the true process bottleneck and provide tips on how to get the most out of an existing bottleneck.

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